Post on 15-Jan-2022
Creativity and Inquiry Based Learning in Teaching Science
Name: Amine Kamal Hamdan (M.Ed)
E-mail: amine@consultfocalpoint.com
The Candle Problem is a classic test of creative problem solving developed by psychologist Karl Duncker in 1945. Subjects are given a candle, a box of thumbtacks, and a box of matches, and asked to affix the lit candle to the wall so that it will not drip wax onto the table below. Go ahead and give it a try !!
Time: 3 min
Comment with one or two sentences on the following pictures.
Schools and Creativity
How some schools approach creativity…
Principal Middle Leader
Teachers, The school has decided we should be more creative…Get on to it, please.
??? ??!!#!%!
Huh!
Middle Leader Teachers
BUT…… HOW??!!!!
Creativity and Divergent Thinking
What we have What we still need
So what about Inquiry Based Learning?
Research suggests that inquiry based learning (IBL) is one way to promote creativity and foster 21st Century skills.
It takes creative and responsive teaching to transform wonder into knowledge. (Scardamalia)
It’s all about the WOW factor !!
What do I know?
K
How do I find out?
F
What will I do next time?
N
How do I use what I learned?
U
What did I learn?
L
What do I want to know?
W
Inquiry Based Learning
Is a process where students
Formulate questions
Investigate
Build new knowledge
Communicate learning to others
Enhances students’
Creativity IndependenceProblem
solving skillsAchievement
• Pose the problem to students
• Students research and find information
• Students design how to research the question and conduct analysis
• Students analyze the results individually or in groups
• Students write their own conclusions based on the evidence and present it to others
Open
• Pose the problem to students
• Present a series of lessons and resource materials
• Assist students in the design of how to research the question and conduct analysis
• Students analyze the results individually or in groups
• Students write their own conclusions based on the evidence
Guided
• Pose the problem to students
• Present a series of lessons and resource materials
• Model how to use the materials and notes
• Assist students with the analysis based on notes, materials, and observations.
• Students write their own conclusions based on the evidence
Structure
Lane, J. L. (2007). Inquiry-based learning. Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence, 2(4), 1-5.
Inquiry Based Learning
Environment Implementation Assessment
Kathleen, a fourteen year old girl managed to express the general needs of all students in her poem to her teacher cited by Carol Ann Tomlinson (2001, p.97)
“Push me! See how far I go!Work me ‘til I drop. Then pick me up.
Open a door, and then make me run toit before it closes.
Teach me so that I might learn,Then let me enter the tunnel of
experience alone.And when, near the end,
I turn to see you beginning another’sjourney,
I shall smile.”
Name: Amine Kamal Hamdan (M.Ed)
E-mail: amine@consultfocalpoint.com